Kitchen as the New Venue of Foreign Policy
Conflict Cuisine examines the nexus of food and war. Included in this study is the practice of culinary diplomacy and gastrodiplomacy by governments and citizens of countries that have experienced war or conflict. In diplomatic terms, Conflict Cuisine and the use of food to persuade and educate is a form of soft power. There are […]
Good Governance Is the Only Real Way to Provide Food Security
Expo Milan, a World’s Fair whose central theme was feeding the planet, officially closed its doors on Oct. 31, after six months that saw 20 million visitors pass through this once swampy area on the outskirts of the city’s industrial center. For Italy, the expo was a huge financial gamble that seems to have paid […]
Johanna Mendelson-Forman quoted in Eater on Conflict Cafes
In an underground skate park housed beneath London’s Waterloo station, there lies a pop-up restaurant. It’s not a literal underground supper club or temporary home to a rogue chef in need of kitchen space. This is Conflict Café, a month-long pop-up restaurant that uses food as a vehicle for dialogue on conflict and peacebuilding. Organized […]
Climate Change and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
The rivers that flow from the Himalayas—including the Mekong, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yellow, and Yangtze— play critical roles in meeting the energy, water, and food security needs of hundreds of millions of people across Asia. These countries depend on these shared water resources for future growth and prosperity— but the long-term viability of current plans for […]
Should Food Security be a National Security Issue?
By Johanna Mendelson Forman and Levi Maxey: Food security as a policy issue has evolved to reflect the dynamism of global events. The increasing attention paid to food’s impact on poverty, humanitarian crises, conflicts and climate change all suggest that food security is a national security concern. Since the term was first used at the […]
Dams and Food Security in the Mekong: Visiting the Don Sahong Dam
This is the second in a two-part series of Spotlights documenting Stimson Research Associate Courtney Weatherby’s travel to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Weatherby along with Richard Cronin, Director of the Southeast Asia program, were given rare access to dams being built in Laos and examine their potential impact on food security in […]
Dams and Food Security in the Mekong: Site Visits to the Xayaburi and Don Sahong Dam Projects
This is the first in a two-part series of Spotlights documenting Stimson Research Associate Courtney Weatherby’s travel to Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Weatherby along with Richard Cronin, Director of the Southeast Asia program, were given rare access to dams being built in Laos to examine their potential impact on food security in the […]
The Global Food Crisis in the Middle East
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneous global crises in the fields of […]